New €5.5m research centre opens at Cork's Fota Wildlife Park 

The centre will make Fota Wildlife Park Munster's largest provider of outdoor education and will lead to an expansion of the park’s informal educational and research opportunities

Fota's new €5.5m state-of-the-art Education, Conservation and Research Centre. Picture: Darragh Kane 

A new €5.5m Education, Conservation and Research Centre has been officially opened at Fota Wildlife Park in Cork — a major addition to Ireland's conservation and education capacity.

Funded by the Government through the Office of the Public Works to the tune of €2m and with €3.5m from Fota, the new centre will cater for up to 20,000 students a year, facilitating a major expansion of its educational and research opportunities in the fields of biodiversity and conservation.